Arms - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition arms

Definition :

Arms, means articles of any description designed or adapted as weapons for offences, or defence, and includes firearms, sharp-edged and other deadly weapons, and parts of, and machinery for manufacturing arms, but does not include articles designed solely for domestic or agricultural uses such as a lathi or an ordinary walking stick and weapons incapable of being used otherwise than as toys or of being converted into serviceable weapons. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2 (1) (c)]